NVIDIA and VMware have built a platform that allows the toughest workloads to be virtualized, while improving reliability and security. From software-based GPUs to shared graphics to dedicated virtual workstations, there is an option for every use case and budget.

Specific topics include:

• What is VMware Horizon View and what benefits does it bring to the desktop?

• How are 3D graphics implemented in VMware Horizon View, including the latest joint announcements from VMware and NVIDIA?

In this session, NVIDIA GRID Community Advisors Ruben Spruijt and Benny Tritsch present their latest findings on benchmarking user experience performance in GRID-accelerated environments hosted on-premises and in the cloud. Get in-depth informat ...Read More

In this session, NVIDIA GRID Community Advisors Ruben Spruijt and Benny Tritsch present their latest findings on benchmarking user experience performance in GRID-accelerated environments hosted on-premises and in the cloud. Get in-depth information on the latest versions of Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop, VMware Horizon and Microsoft RDS when accelerated by NVIDIA GPUs. What is the performance impact caused by remoting protocol settings, latency and common WAN scenarios? Hundreds of recorded screen videos and telemetry data sets, combined with a unique visualisation tool, allow Ruben and Benny to analyse and compare the performance of selected GRID-accelerated remote desktops and VDI scenarios, live on stage.

Discussion and demonstration of the potential with running HPC, and VDI workloads on common clusters for a modern a datacenter Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde scenario. Explore the coexistence of CUDA based HPC job engines in conjunction with both Linux and ...Read More

Discussion and demonstration of the potential with running HPC, and VDI workloads on common clusters for a modern a datacenter Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde scenario. Explore the coexistence of CUDA based HPC job engines in conjunction with both Linux and Windows machines used for virtual desktop infrastructure. The demonstration will focus on a very minimal VMware cluster deployment using VSAN storage to host both the Linux HPC multi node cluster for CUDA workloads and a VMware Horizon view deployment for Linux and Windows Virtual Desktops performing DirectX, OpenGL, and CUDA based visualization workloads as used by engineering and analysis power users. Back

You''ve just been tasked with deploying the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit to a group of developers. Wouldn''t it be great if you could save time deploying it, protect the developers work, reduce the amount of unique workstation hardware needed, & get more ...Read More

You''ve just been tasked with deploying the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit to a group of developers. Wouldn''t it be great if you could save time deploying it, protect the developers work, reduce the amount of unique workstation hardware needed, & get more out of your hardware investment? This session will show how this can be done with VMware Horizon Virtual Desktops leveraging vGPUs and the CUDA Toolkit. The CUDA Toolkit is a core component of most developer''s desktops and provides the underpinnings for many development operations that take advantage of GPU technology. It can, and often is, difficult to install on Virtual Machines. We will walk through its deployment on Linux virtual machines, insuring requirements for both the CUDA Toolkit & VMware Horizon with vGPU are met. Back

We''ll focus on the key requirements and benefits of using Linux VDIs for chip design applications such as cadence allegro, PTC creao, etc. Currently there is a huge interest in this space for GPU accelerated VDIs specially with Linux as OS since &qu ...Read More

We''ll focus on the key requirements and benefits of using Linux VDIs for chip design applications such as cadence allegro, PTC creao, etc. Currently there is a huge interest in this space for GPU accelerated VDIs specially with Linux as OS since "exceed on demand" and other applications are out dated and quite expensive to operate. We will discuss some use cases both with VMWare and Citrix and after receiving permission for few customers their names as current users. A live demo will be followed at the end and Q&A. Back

Enterprise Digital Workspaces support diverse workloads including virtual desktops, deep learning, big data. Nvidia GPUs bring high performance computing (HPC) for graphics, GPGPU, especially machine learning workloads. They also provide HW encode and decode to accelerate the processing of video contents. In this session, we will explore performance and resource utilization of various workloads that leverage different capabilities of GPU like graphics, compute and H.264 HW encode / decode. Nvidia virtualized GPUs and VMware vSphere brings in tremendous combined benefits for both GPU-based workloads and data center management via virtualization. We will present results of our research on running diverse workloads on vSphere platform using Nvidia GRID GPUs. We explore vSphere features of Suspend/Resume and vMotioning of vGPU based virtual machines. We will quantify benefits of vGPU for data center management using VMware vSphere and describe techniques for efficient management of workloads and datacenter resources. Back

Explore the use of GPUs in virtualized environments. In this session we describe how GPUs can be used within virtual environments with near-native performance. We begin by showing GPU performance across four hypervisors: VMWare ESXi, KVM, Xen, and LX ...Read More

Explore the use of GPUs in virtualized environments. In this session we describe how GPUs can be used within virtual environments with near-native performance. We begin by showing GPU performance across four hypervisors: VMWare ESXi, KVM, Xen, and LXC. After showing that performance characteristics of each platform, we extend the results to the multi-node case with nodes interconnected by QDR InfiniBand. We demonstrate multi-node GPU performance using GPUDirect-enabled MPI, achieving efficiencies of 97-99% of a non-virtualized system. Examples are drawn from signal processing, big data analytics, and molecular dynamics. The session will conclude with a discussion of the next steps in extending HPC to virtual environments, including our work with the OpenStack platform. Back

Virtual is Better than Physical - Delivering a Delightful User Experience from a Virtual Desktop

Kenneth Fingerlos (Lewan Technology)

Desktop Virtualization has been around for years with a large number of very good reasons to deploy it. However in the effort to control costs and deliver desktops over poor connections and skinny pipes IT Admins have often resorted to delivering sub ...Read More

Desktop Virtualization has been around for years with a large number of very good reasons to deploy it. However in the effort to control costs and deliver desktops over poor connections and skinny pipes IT Admins have often resorted to delivering sub-par user experiences. This session focuses on technologies which allow delivery of stunning, responsive, rich user experiences from virtual desktops without breaking the bank. With a focus on user experience this session delves into IO, graphics, memory, CPU, and how to get the most smiles for your dollar. This session includes specific discussion of GPU Virtualization, IO optimization, and FLASH storage for Virtual Desktop Environments. Including configurations for Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop, and VMware View. Back

Get up to speed with GPU optimized VDI solutions. More and more customers see the benefits of server-hosted Desktop Virtualization solutions such as VDI. There are several important players in this market space, and from a marketing perspective these ...Read More

Get up to speed with GPU optimized VDI solutions. More and more customers see the benefits of server-hosted Desktop Virtualization solutions such as VDI. There are several important players in this market space, and from a marketing perspective these solutions have a lot in common. This presentation is based on industry analysis and customer cases and covers the Good/Bad/Ugly of VDI, the various use-case scenario's of GPU in Desktop Virtualization, the technical differences between Microsoft, Citrix and VMware VDI solutions and their approach to deliver Graphical,- resource intensive applications to end-users and finally tips on how to choose the right solution. Join Ruben Spruijt (MVP, CTP and vExpert - CTO @ PQR) as he provides opinions and great argumentation on such topics.
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How good are today's virtual desktop remoting protocols when combined with NVIDIA GRID cards? Virtualization experts Benny Tritsch and Shawn Bass developed a unique, vendor-independent test methodology allowing them to visually compare Microsoft Rem ...Read More

How good are today's virtual desktop remoting protocols when combined with NVIDIA GRID cards? Virtualization experts Benny Tritsch and Shawn Bass developed a unique, vendor-independent test methodology allowing them to visually compare Microsoft RemoteFX, VMware/Teradici PCoIP and Citrix HDX head-to-head under different network conditions. Join them in their session where they walk you through the results of their NVIDIA-accelerated tests. See the difference between shared and dedicated GPUs in virtual desktops running on different popular virtualization platforms. Back

In this session we will explore the various options Dell supports in its Dell Wyse DataCenter solution offerings. This session will describe various platform offerings, such as the PowerEdge 720, PowerEdge C8220x and Precision 7610 with the various g ...Read More

In this session we will explore the various options Dell supports in its Dell Wyse DataCenter solution offerings. This session will describe various platform offerings, such as the PowerEdge 720, PowerEdge C8220x and Precision 7610 with the various graphics cards options. In addition, we will discuss the solution offerings around VMware View, Citrix XenDeskop, and Microsoft with Dell vWorkspace. Lastly, we will detail the capabilities of those solutions offerings with various hypervisors, such as VMware vSphere, Citrix XenServer, and Microsoft Windows 2012. This will provide attendees with an overall view of what Dell can offer, giving customers multiple options that they can pick from. Back

Customer Success Story: Desktop Virtualization with NVIDIA GRID for a Large Construction Company

Jits Langedijk (PQR)

Learn how one of the largest construction companies in the Netherlands successfully implemented a VDI environment with NVIDIA GRID, Citrix XenDesktop and VMware virtualization. Hear about their use cases and lessons learned of as well as how to run A ...Read More

Learn how one of the largest construction companies in the Netherlands successfully implemented a VDI environment with NVIDIA GRID, Citrix XenDesktop and VMware virtualization. Hear about their use cases and lessons learned of as well as how to run AutoDesk, BIM and other applications with VDI. Back

If you are looking for the guidance and the "tool" on how to do the scaling for the 3D workloads in Horizon 6 with View on NVidia Grid GPU, you have come to the right session. In this session, we provide a deep dive on the scale testing of ...Read More

If you are looking for the guidance and the "tool" on how to do the scaling for the 3D workloads in Horizon 6 with View on NVidia Grid GPU, you have come to the right session. In this session, we provide a deep dive on the scale testing of various 3D workloads using View Planner 3.5 tool. View Planner 3.5 is a capacity planning tool that supports the real user workload including Office applications, video, audio, Interactive (mouse) tests and characterizes the true user experience for desktops and also has a feature of bring your own applications (BYOA). Using the BYOA feature of this tool, we show how you can quickly characterize your GRID GPU to get the scaling results for different 3D workloads and benchmarks while meeting the desired user experience. Back

In this tutorial, we will train attendees on how to deploy Horizon 6 View with NVIDIA GRID based on best practices learned from the field. Some of the topics that will be covered include how to: install GPUs in a server, install vSphere for GRID vGPU ...Read More

In this tutorial, we will train attendees on how to deploy Horizon 6 View with NVIDIA GRID based on best practices learned from the field. Some of the topics that will be covered include how to: install GPUs in a server, install vSphere for GRID vGPU and come up with storage (vSAN), install NVIDIA GRID VIB, launch vCenter Web Client and create VM, add Shared PCI Device and set the VGPU profile, install VMware Horizon Agent 6.0.1 and Setup Monterey Enable, add VM to pools, manually clone VMs and add to pools, monitor performance and, debug common errors. Back

GPU-Enabled VDI and Rendering at Architecture and Engineering Firm HDR

Clint Pearson (HDR, Inc.), Jeremy Korell (HDR, Inc.)

At GTC 2013, Clint and Jeremy caught the vision of GPU-enabled VDI using NVIDIA GRID, as well as many other applications of GRID for HDR, a global engineering and architecture design firm based in Omaha Nebraska. Ever since, Clint and Jeremy have be ...Read More

At GTC 2013, Clint and Jeremy caught the vision of GPU-enabled VDI using NVIDIA GRID, as well as many other applications of GRID for HDR, a global engineering and architecture design firm based in Omaha Nebraska. Ever since, Clint and Jeremy have been leading the HDR IT Group to fund and implement a GPU-Enabled VMware View system to enable global work-sharing from a central data center. Back

Exploring Design Considerations: CAD/CAM Experiences from the Experts Using Citrix and VMware

Fred Devoir (Textron Inc.), Randall Siggers (Textron Inc.)

Join an interactive discussion and Q&A session highlighting the design considerations for deployment of 3D remote graphics solutions with a focus on end-user experience as applied for use with CAD/CAM. Designing for user experience should in ...Read More

Join an interactive discussion and Q&A session highlighting the design considerations for deployment of 3D remote graphics solutions with a focus on end-user experience as applied for use with CAD/CAM. Designing for user experience should include considerations for availability, performance, and personalization. Explore the different use cases for Citrix and VMware as applied for use with Autodesk AutoCAD, Dassault Catia, PTC ProEngineer, and Siemens NX. Included will be demonstrated tuning of Dassault Systèmes Catia V6 for Citrix XenDesktop, massive WriteCache design consideration for ANSYS, how to design for user concurrency without sacrificing performance or user experience, and VMware vGPU design considerations in regards to Autodesk on VMware Horizon View.

Dedicating GPUs for VDI and SBC Workloads: How the ROI and Business Value More Than Justifies the Expense

Mark Margevicius (VMWare)

Many customers are experimenting with GPUs for their VDI and SBC-based users. And, while the necessary capital investments pose challenges, we will share how customers have successfully justified these costs based on ROI and other newly created value ...Read More

Many customers are experimenting with GPUs for their VDI and SBC-based users. And, while the necessary capital investments pose challenges, we will share how customers have successfully justified these costs based on ROI and other newly created value. This session will provide practical, real-world advice on how IT administrators can create a strong business case for GPUs. Back

Let's review your design options to provide access for graphical intense applications MRI, CAD, and others in a virtual desktop environment. In this session, I will demonstrate the benefits of adding NVIDIA GRID cards to dedicate GPU for horizon ...Read More

Let's review your design options to provide access for graphical intense applications MRI, CAD, and others in a virtual desktop environment. In this session, I will demonstrate the benefits of adding NVIDIA GRID cards to dedicate GPU for horizon View applications. Soon you will be able to virtualize the GPU hardware and share it among multiple View desktops. NVIDIA GRID vGPU on VMware vSphere brings the full benefit of virtualized graphics acceleration on NVIDIA GRID. This technology provides exceptional graphics performance for virtual desktops equivalent to local PCs when sharing a GPU among multiple users. Back

As more and more companies realize the benefits of virtualization, it is essential for success to ensure virtualized graphics is a true replacement to existing desktops and workstations. This means that graphics performance must be acceptable to Desi ...Read More

As more and more companies realize the benefits of virtualization, it is essential for success to ensure virtualized graphics is a true replacement to existing desktops and workstations. This means that graphics performance must be acceptable to Designers and Power Users even under heavy server load and high user density. Learn how to deploy, configure and test performance scalability for graphics rich applications using NVIDIA virtual GPU. This session will include a walkthrough of Virtual GPU setups on both Citrix and VMware VDI platforms and will provide insight on how to optimize and tune the environments for best performance. The session will also give an overview of the deployment and performance measurement tools used for testing, as well as present detailed results of scale testing Back

End-to-end implementation of GRID for XenDesktop including best practices and design considerations. The talk will be focused on XenServer 6.2 FP1 and XenDesktop/XenApp 7.6 with HDX 3D Pro but we will discuss VMWare solutions as well. We will also di ...Read More

End-to-end implementation of GRID for XenDesktop including best practices and design considerations. The talk will be focused on XenServer 6.2 FP1 and XenDesktop/XenApp 7.6 with HDX 3D Pro but we will discuss VMWare solutions as well. We will also discuss GRID in several industry verticals including education and healthcare. Back

As the promise of connecting workstations to the cloud for rich visual graphics becomes possible, visual thinkers - engineers, artists, scientists, and gamers are beginning to move their models and run applications in the cloud. While traditionally, ...Read More

As the promise of connecting workstations to the cloud for rich visual graphics becomes possible, visual thinkers - engineers, artists, scientists, and gamers are beginning to move their models and run applications in the cloud. While traditionally, virtual desktops were regarded as too slow and unable to deliver a good user experience, the NVIDIA GRID vGPU technology is a breakthrough in delivering rich graphics VDI as a service. NVIDIA GRID vGPU, VMware, a modern cloud delivery infrastructure, and a set of best practices combine to deliver a breakthrough for rich graphics applications as a service capability. Back

The Latest in High Performance Desktops with VMware Horizon and NVIDIA GRID? vGPU

Pat Lee (VMware), Luke Wignall (NVIDIA)

Hear about the latest advances in 3D desktops with VMware Horizon and NVIDIA GRID. Until now, delivering high performance graphics workstations remotely was cost prohibitive and complicated to setup and deliver. With VMware Horizon and NVIDIA GRID vG ...Read More

Hear about the latest advances in 3D desktops with VMware Horizon and NVIDIA GRID. Until now, delivering high performance graphics workstations remotely was cost prohibitive and complicated to setup and deliver. With VMware Horizon and NVIDIA GRID vGPU, there has never been a better time to deliver high performance 3D desktops in a cost effective manner that is simple to setup and deploy bring your customers the security, performance, reliability, and collaboration needed to transform their business. Back

The panel will share their experiences and insights gained on transforming their business by moving 3D workstations to the data center with NVIDIA GRID and VMware Horizon. Hear actual customers speaking about their real world use of NVIDIA GRID ...Read More

The panel will share their experiences and insights gained on transforming their business by moving 3D workstations to the data center with NVIDIA GRID and VMware Horizon. Hear actual customers speaking about their real world use of NVIDIA GRID vWorkstations and vGPU. Audience is invited to ask questions of the panel as well.

We'll demonstrate the benefits of moving your training and simulation workloads into a secure cloud environment with VMware and NVIDIA GRID. We focus on the performance of these applications when virtualized and demonstrate an application in actio ...Read More

We'll demonstrate the benefits of moving your training and simulation workloads into a secure cloud environment with VMware and NVIDIA GRID. We focus on the performance of these applications when virtualized and demonstrate an application in action. The session covers an example architecture and sizing for deploying Bohemia Interactive Simulations Virtual Battlespace 3 product. You will see the application in action along with benchmarks comparing physical workstation vs. virtual desktop. Back

Learn the best tools that is available for monitoring NVIDIA GRID for Citrix, Vmware and Microsoft. Learn how to monitor from GPU, hypervisor, virtual machine, app level, protocol and end user experience. In this session CTP and MVP awarded Thomas Po ...Read More

Learn the best tools that is available for monitoring NVIDIA GRID for Citrix, Vmware and Microsoft. Learn how to monitor from GPU, hypervisor, virtual machine, app level, protocol and end user experience. In this session CTP and MVP awarded Thomas Poppelgaard will show you how to use monitoring tools such as Uberagent, Goliath Performance Monitor and Lakeside Systrack. In this session you get the ultimate overview of possible monitoring stacks and after the session you will learn whats possible and which limitations are in the products. Back

This talk will present the journey Lockheed Martin Unmanned Integrated Systems has taken over the past several years in its effort to successfully virtualize the GPU for integration into its Unmanned Vehicle Ground Control Systems. During this effort ...Read More

This talk will present the journey Lockheed Martin Unmanned Integrated Systems has taken over the past several years in its effort to successfully virtualize the GPU for integration into its Unmanned Vehicle Ground Control Systems. During this effort, Lockheed Martin UIS has utilized direct GPU pass-through, Microsoft's RemoteFX, VMware's vSGA, and now NVIDIA GRID vGPU technologies to bridge this once impassible technology gap in successfully virtualizing the GPU. This talk will provide an overview of the challenges faced during this effort, solutions to those challenges, benefits gained by staying open-architecture oriented, and SWaP improvements realized. Back

GPUs in the Cloud: Join Adobe and SOLIDWORKS, Run Apps on Infinite Scale with Frame

Nikola Bozinovic (Frame)

What do Adobe, SOLIDWORKS, and ANSYS have in common? They all use Frame Cloud Platform for frictionless delivery of software to users around the world. In this session, you'll learn why leading software vendors pick Frame, and what makes public cl ...Read More

What do Adobe, SOLIDWORKS, and ANSYS have in common? They all use Frame Cloud Platform for frictionless delivery of software to users around the world. In this session, you'll learn why leading software vendors pick Frame, and what makes public cloud ideal for your next application virtualization project. Frame's revolutionary service is built from scratch for the cloud age. It does in 15 minutes what would take months using Citrix or VMware. There are no software upgrades to manage, no plugins or additional hardware to purchase, and there are no capacity limits (seriously!) Frame is optimized for NVIDIA graphics, so even the most complex visual applications run smoothly. Most importantly, everything &quot;just works&quot;, every time. If you are a software developer or an organization looking to run Windows or Linux apps from the cloud, stop by to learn more about Frame and join hundreds of software vendors and global design firms transforming their businesses in the cloud. Back

Learn why EVERY remote user should have GPU resources available to them. We'll discuss the advantages end-users experience once their virtual desktops/sessions have GPU capabilities. Recent data from the NVIDIA GRID Performance Engineering t ...Read More

Learn why EVERY remote user should have GPU resources available to them. We'll discuss the advantages end-users experience once their virtual desktops/sessions have GPU capabilities. Recent data from the NVIDIA GRID Performance Engineering team shows a significant impact GPUs like the Tesla M10 has on knowledge workers. The data includes real user testing and scientific data like latency, bandwidth, and CPU utilization, which all play a significant role in the overall user experience.

Efficient deployment of GPU-based machine learning, especially deep learning, in cloud environments is an important focus of research and development. As the leader in cloud infrastructure software, VMware provides multiple solutions that optimize pe ...Read More

Efficient deployment of GPU-based machine learning, especially deep learning, in cloud environments is an important focus of research and development. As the leader in cloud infrastructure software, VMware provides multiple solutions that optimize performance and enhance flexibility for machine learning workloads. We'll present the results of our research on machine learning with NVIDIA GPUs on VMware's vSphere platform. Learn different ways to deploy GPU-based workloads developed with popular machine learning frameworks like TensorFlow and Torch in a virtualized environment using VMware DirectPath I/O and NVIDIA GRID vGPU solutions. We'll discuss how to mix workloads to maximize resource utilization and deployment flexibility by running machine learning together with other workloads on the same server. Finally, we'll analyze the performance characteristics of machine learning with GPUs for multiple use cases and at different scales in virtualized cloud data centers. Back

Getting Started with GPUs for Linux Virtual Desktops on VMware Horizon

Tony Foster (Dell EMC), Trey Johnson (Dell EMC)

You've just been tasked with building a Linux VDI environment for an engineering team with graphics requirements. Now what? Join an NVIDIA GRID Community Advisor to learn the basics of setting up Linux VDI desktops with GPU capabilities and see the ...Read More

You've just been tasked with building a Linux VDI environment for an engineering team with graphics requirements. Now what? Join an NVIDIA GRID Community Advisor to learn the basics of setting up Linux VDI desktops with GPU capabilities and see the results we captured when we built it in the lab. This is a session for those wanting to get started with Linux virtual desktops that need GPU capabilities. Back

Discover the benefits of virtualizing any desktop or application using VMware Horizon and NVIDIA GRID. Learn about how NVIDIA GRID and VMware Blast Extreme Adaptive Transport now delivers a transformational user experience for LAN and WAN users, ...Read More

Have you ever wondered if you could run your graphics-intensive applications such as Siemens NX and Siemens Team Center in your enterprise cloud? Would it perform the same as on your powerful workstation on your desk? Join this sessi ...Read More

Have you ever wondered if you could run your graphics-intensive applications such as Siemens NX and Siemens Team Center in your enterprise cloud? Would it perform the same as on your powerful workstation on your desk? Join this session and hear about the journey from 16 desktops in a cooling container to 2500+ virtual desktops and how Siemens transformed virtual clients from being just an extra desktop to a business-critical service using VMware Horizon View and Nvidia GRID to meet the demands of a global, anytime, anywhere workforce that is no longer tethered to location or hardware.

Clinical staff need the ability to access cardiology imagery at anytime of day, and sometimes in very low bandwidth situations. Cerner identified this need and took efforts to build a solution to deliver high-performance graphics computing centered i ...Read More

Clinical staff need the ability to access cardiology imagery at anytime of day, and sometimes in very low bandwidth situations. Cerner identified this need and took efforts to build a solution to deliver high-performance graphics computing centered in the data center rather than having a physical machine present. The Cerner SkyVue Cardiology application traditionally requires higher performance workstations with substantial graphics cards. By centrally locating these within data centers, clinical staff can access the application from any workstation or mobile device with VMware Horizon View and NVIDIA GRID as the enabling technology. Back

A guest of this session will learn about considerations regarding mixing VDI and computational workloads on commercially available hypervisors such as VMware vSphere and the limitations of doing so. Current GPU capabilities will be discussed as appli ...Read More

A guest of this session will learn about considerations regarding mixing VDI and computational workloads on commercially available hypervisors such as VMware vSphere and the limitations of doing so. Current GPU capabilities will be discussed as applied to various industries. Back

You'll learn about enabling virtualized GPUs for machine learning workloads on VMware vSphere and combining GPU performance with data center management benefits of VMware vSphere. NVIDIA's Pascal GPU is the first GPU to offer both virtualized Compu ...Read More

You'll learn about enabling virtualized GPUs for machine learning workloads on VMware vSphere and combining GPU performance with data center management benefits of VMware vSphere. NVIDIA's Pascal GPU is the first GPU to offer both virtualized Compute/CUDA and virtualized Graphics. It supports multiple virtual machines (VM) sharing GPU for both compute and graphics capabilities. We will present our research results of machine learning workloads with vSphere platform using NVIDIA's virtualized GPUs. Learn different ways to deploy GPU-based workloads developed with popular machine learning frameworks like TensorFlow and Caffe using VMware DirectPathIO and NVIDIA vGPU solutions. We will discuss use cases to leverage best scheduling methods Equal Share, Fixed Share and Best Effort for virtualized GPUs and illustrate their benefits via our performance study. We address the scalability of machine learning workloads in term of the number of VMs per vSphere server and the number of GPUs per VM. Data center resource utilization of these workloads on vSphere with NVIDIA GPUs is also analyzed and presented. Back

NVIDIA vGPU Community Advisors Ruben Spruijt and Benny Tritsch present their latest findings on benchmarking user experience performance in NVIDIA vGPU-accelerated environments hosted on-premises and in the cloud. Get in-depth information on the late ...Read More

NVIDIA vGPU Community Advisors Ruben Spruijt and Benny Tritsch present their latest findings on benchmarking user experience performance in NVIDIA vGPU-accelerated environments hosted on-premises and in the cloud. Get in-depth information on the latest versions of Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop, VMware Horizon and Microsoft RDS when accelerated by NVIDIA GPUs. What is the performance impact caused by remoting protocol settings, latency and common WAN scenarios? Hundreds of recorded screen videos and telemetry data sets, combined with a unique visualisation tool, allow Ruben and Benny to analyse and compare the performance of selected NVIDIA vGPU-accelerated remote desktops and VDI scenarios, live on stage. Back

VMware Horizon View combined with NVIDIA GRID and Quadro GPUs can now deliver the most flexible and scalable virtual 3D graphics architecture to power users, designers and demanding 3D workstation class applications to support the modern flexibl ...Read More

VMware Horizon View combined with NVIDIA GRID and Quadro GPUs can now deliver the most flexible and scalable virtual 3D graphics architecture to power users, designers and demanding 3D workstation class applications to support the modern flexible work force. More and more organizations are looking to enable an ever more remote workforce but with the security and data compliance. Until recently, remote workforce was limited to knowledge workers and office applications, but with the latest advances in virtualized graphics and virtual desktop integration from NVIDIA and VMware, organizations can enable workers in local high speed offices or in home offices access to high performance 3D applications with all data being stored securely in your private cloud.

Join Steve Harpster, Solution Architect, NVIDIA, for this technical webinar and learn how to set up NVIDIA GRID with VMware Horizon View vDGA. You’ll also discover how to optimize the virtual machines to get the best performance for y ...Read More

Join Steve Harpster, Solution Architect, NVIDIA, for this technical webinar and learn how to set up NVIDIA GRID with VMware Horizon View vDGA. You’ll also discover how to optimize the virtual machines to get the best performance for your demanding 3D workloads and what to consider when planning for scalability and density.Key takeways from the webinar include:- Why GPUs (Graphics Processing Units) help in virtual desktops and applications- How to demo, pilot and deploy GPU-accelerated virtual desktops & applications- Tips and tricks for tuning GRID enabled virtual machines- Planning and guidance for the right virtual machine setup based on common applications